Em Qua, 2005-08-10 às 16:43 -0400, Matthew Nobes escreveu: > One particular question I had was wether anybody here had experiance > with maxima as a replacement for maple/mathmatica?
Well, I've had little experience with maxima as a replacement for maple or mathematica. I've tried to use maxima inside Texmacs, which proved beatiful aesthetically but not very functional. A friend of mine is now considering Mupad. If you are really interested, we can talk about that. It is surprising that we don't have something free like maple or mathematica. And though I have no experience in programming, it sounds feasible to develop something like that. My name is Guilherme Pereira de Freitas, and I am a mathematical economics graduate student at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( http://www.impa.br ). As an udergraduate, I've worked with some people from maths department at the University of Brasília ( http://www.unb.br ) to spread the use of free software tools for scientific tasks. One of the projects was to build a live-cd with LaTeX and some basic tools for geometry, plotting, drawing, simple data processing, etc. Our goal was to make people aware that there were powerful (or not so powerful) free tools available for some scientific tasks. We wanted to provide an easy way for these people to discover free software scientific tools. Our base live-cd was kurumin ( http://www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin/ ), a very popular and extremely friendly brazilian Knoppix-based distro. Guilherme -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com
